Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-08
DAKOTA NEWS.

John w. Parker, Bismarck druggist,
has failed in business.
Two hundred children were yaccinated
ly DR.. Wallace at Memo the other day.
Judge Palmer is said to be acting as
substitute for Judge Spencer at Gary.
Elias Hope, of Mandan, claims to be
the Oldest Odd Fellow in the territory.
Stone is being hauled for the founda-
ton OF the new opera house at 1roquois.
Natural gas, four miles from Fargo,
threw sand and dirt forty feet into the air.
The Sioux Valley Baptist Association
held its sixth annual convention OF DeSmet
lately.
The Sawyer elevator, containing 44,0oo
bushels of wheat, collapsed at Tower City
on Monday.
The Sioux Falls cracker factory has so |
many orders that it can not begin to keep
u with them.
There were some fine races at Water
town June oath and 25th. The purses ag-
gregated $1,000.
-Watertown is going to have packing
house, the erection of the building having
already commenced.
Grand Forks printers have struck be-
cause they were not allowed to quit work
on Saturdays at S 2. NJ.
Frank Shepard has been appointed
postmaster at Fort Abraham, Lincoln, vice
VIM. Cannon, deceased.
In view of the rise in price OF wool
NIcCook county farmers are not anxious to
sell their sheep this year.
The Mortgage, Bank and Investment
Company has been incorporated with
$500, 1000 capital at Ipswich.
The Sioux reservation Indians are said
to have a splendid show for crops wherever
they have attempted to farm.
The governor refuses to grant par
don to Mrs. Bouchie, sentenced to the pen
itentiary from Kingsbury county.
1t is announced that ex- City Treasurer
Reid will return to Bismarck soon and will
settle all just claims against him.
A peddler of snide iewelry and notions
is selling his wares to Sioux Falls people
at prices nearly double those asked by the
dealers Of that town.
The country between the Missouri and
the Black Hills is said to be needing rain
pretty badly, particularly along the line OF
the Northern Pacific.
In the term of district court at Water
town the indictment of II. Thompson, for
adultery, and that against NJ. Burschiet for
forgery, were quashed.
The thermometer indicated 100 in the
shade at Pierre, the other day, and the
ground is getting SO dry that fears are en-
tertained for the wheat crop.
Judge Spencer and Gov. Church will
spend the heated season on the shores of
Lake Kampeska, and cottages for their ac-
commodation are being erected.
Sioux Falls old cannon has been
mounted on substantial carriage sug-
eestiyely painted red. The town now ex-
poets to have boom before long.
1T is announced that an experimental
bore made in the earth within four miles Of
Pierre struck q deposit Of natural gas, ane
that large flow has been secured.
Capt. Thomas e. Ruth, of DeSmet
mas UeGu plOluOtC0 W 1uuJoA u VIC t1CSoii>
Regimet. He has been captain of Com
pauy E since it's organization in 1855.
james Ingalls, and wife, of Edison
township, Minnehaha county,, have tn
banner family for South Dakota. Their
are thirteen children, ten of them bein!
boys, making fifteen in the family.
The costumes of the Andrews Oper
company were attached at Fargo just be
fore presentation Of "Mascotte," by
former employe on a claim of wages. The
were promptly paid and the performanc
given.
Jewell Bros, a wholesale firm of Aber
deem, have commenced criminal actio
against f. II. Willis, the general merchar
of Warner, who recently failed, chargin
that he obtained goods under false pre-
lenses. ......
The North Dakota Loan and Trust AS
ISOLATION, of Jamestown, has reorganizec
with ex-Gov. 6. A. Pierce as president.
is estimated that the members represen
individual capital TO the amount of $50,
100000.
The following officers were elected :
the North Dakota tournament at Whape
ton: President, J. G. Mckendry, Fargo
secretary, Frank Gray Wahpeton; treas
urer, G. E. Pierce, Jamestown. Nc7
tournament at Grafton.
"A Grand Forks man was awakene
about midnight by noise in his room, an
saw a burglar rummaging in his burea
drawer. He sprang upon the thief b.
after brief struggle the fellow got avs
and disappeared in the darkness.
John Gown, who is charged with oil
tanning 1929 some time since under falls
pretense of John Cloudy, refuses Il volul
tecr Offer of acceptable bail for 81 900, az
remains locked up. He says he will ha'
just as good defense as the attorney hi
prosecution.
The Roscoe city council voted to a
cept the proposition made by the Phell
Wind Mill company to sink we'll az
supply wind mill and tanks for suf1iciel